| 30/4/2010 |
Hearts to love God - Justin Moffatt |
Deuteronomy 6 |
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| As begin our series in Deuteronomy 6, Revive - new beginnings for an ancient people; Justin works through what it means to love the God of life with all of ourselves by tracing his story of salvation through eternity. |
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| 25/4/2010 |
The Essence of Love - Rory Shiner |
Luke 15 |
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| Once again Jesus in trouble for keeping dodgy company, and he responds with three parables about the way we go out of our way to retrieve something we've lost. He finishes with the 'parable of the prodigal son', the story of two sons and the unconditional love of their father. |
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| 18/4/2010 |
The Essence of Religion - Rory Shiner |
Luke 18 |
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| As we work through Luke's gospel we are challenged by a series of parables about what it means to follow Jesus. This week we hit the topic of religion, Rory unpacks Jesus' parable of the Pharisee and tax collector - and Jesus teaching is surprising. |
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| 11/4/2010 |
The Essence of Stuff - Ed Surrey |
Luke 12 |
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| Confronted with an argument over family inheritance Jesus warns his disciples against greed and tells the parable of the rich fool, whose lavish self-indulgence and materialism sound like a picture of contemporary Australian life. |
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| 4/4/2010 |
The Resurrection - Kanishka Raffel |
John 20 |
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| As we celebrate Easter, Kanishka explores the significance and implications of Jesus' resurrection in John 20. |
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| 28/3/2010 |
Essential Recognition - Rory Shiner |
Luke 9 |
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| As we reach the end of the first movement of Luke, we are asked: who is Jesus? Peter says Jesus is God's anointed king, but he's not he messiah that they were expecting. |
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| 21/3/2010 |
Essential Authority - Rory Shiner |
Luke 8 |
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| The Bible looks forward to a time of Shalom - a peace that goes beyond a state of mind but reflects the perfection and right order of the world. In Luke's presentation of Jesus we see the Prince of Shalom, the one who has authority to reorder the things the way they should be. |
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| 14/3/2010 |
Essential Compassion - Rory Shiner |
Luke 7 |
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| Jesus was criticised by religious people for hanging out with the wrong crowd, prostitutes and tax-collectors - the sort of people everyone looked down on. In Luke 7, Jesus gets caught out - he goes to dinner at a Pharisee's house and a prostitute turns up who knows him, and starts kissing his feet! What does it all mean? |
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| 7/3/2010 |
The Essential Human - Rory Shiner |
Luke 4 |
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| As Jesus begins his public ministry he is led into the wilderness and tempted by Satan. What's going on in this unusual story? And what does it mean for us when we face temptation? |
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| 28/2/2010 |
The Essential Hope - Rory Shiner |
Luke 1 |
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| The beginning of Luke's gospel is as unusual as it is captivating. This gospel, written to explain Jesus to non-Jews does not shy away from his Jewish roots. We begin the story in the midst of the faithful remnant of Israel, longing to be redeemed. |
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| 21/2/2010 |
Luke's Essential Jesus - Rory Shiner |
Luke 1 |
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| We kick off our series on the Essential Jesus, we're spending a semester studying Luke's gospel; and we begin by taking a look at the start and the end to see what it's like and what it's about. |
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| 14/2/2010 |
On being subject - Jon Rumble |
Romans 13 |
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| We worship God by giving him our whole lives - in chapter 13 Paul explores how that looks in the way we interact with governments and authorities that God has put in place over us. |
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| 7/2/2010 |
On accepting each other - Rory Shiner |
Romans 14 |
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| The Christian gospel brought something genuinely new onto the world stage--a multicultural religion. In Romans 14, Paul gives a profound, cross-shaped path for the Roman Christians to live with each other in spite of cultural difference. |
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| 31/1/2010 |
On love - Rory Shiner |
Romans 12 |
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| Love is the shape of the Christian life. As followers of Jesus, we are called both to love the family of believers and to love the outsider. Paul here talks through the how and why of love. |
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| 24/1/2010 |
On the use of gifts - Rory Shiner |
Romans 12 |
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| Some things are unified because they are the same; others because in their differences they work together for a common cause. The unity of the church is the latter kind--a unity in diversity in which God has caused us find our needs meet in the gifts of others. |
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| 17/1/2010 |
On the worship of God - Rory Shiner |
Romans 12 |
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| In Romans 12, Paul turns decisively to the question: How do we response to the God who did not spare anything for us? The answer, naturally, is that we do not withhold anything from him. This is the nature of true worship. |
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| 3/1/2010 |
Weak Samson, strong saviour - Dave Entwistle |
Judges 15 |
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| Sex, parties, fighting and magic hair: Samson's story is action-packed. But what is it all about? Dave shows us how God used this hot-headed hooligan to save his people from oppressive foreign rulers. |
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| 27/12/2009 |
A hero comes - Dave Entwistle |
1Samuel 17 |
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| It happens in every story. A hero always comes along, to kill the giant and save the people. As Dave takes us through the classic story of David and Goliath, he asks, what are our Goliaths? And will a hero come to save us? |
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| 20/12/2009 |
When a child is born - Rory Shiner |
Luke 2 |
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| A pregnant teenager, a donkey, a birth in a stable with sheep, shepherds and Kings from the east. We all have a version of the nativity in our heads - but how much has been embellished, changed or added in? When they tell the story, what do the gospel writers want us to know about Jesus? |
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| 6/12/2009 |
Autocrats, expats and big cats - Mark Grobicki |
Daniel 6 |
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| Mark continues our summer series with one of the most famous stories in the Bible: Daniel and the Lion's Den. While Daniel's rescue may make kids feel warm and fuzzy, what does this story of a 6th century BC exiled Jew have to say to adults in the 21st century? Will those who worship God really be vindicated? And why should we worship God in the first place? |
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